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Don’t Go To The ‘Doctor’!
Stream: When a 'Doctor' is No Longer a Doctor Meanwhile, somewhere in the Netherlands... "Mommy?" "Susie, is that you? Aren't you at school? Is something wrong?" "No, Mommy. I cut…
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Journal Hoax Shows Limits Of Scientific Publication
Stream: Hoax Shows Limits of Scientific Journals So the Neuroskeptic, a blogger for Discover magazine, submitted a nonsense paper to several journals, some of which accepted and even published it.…
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Example Of How To Eliminate P-values & Their Replacement
Many, many more details are available in Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics and at this page. Last time we learned that the way to do probability models…
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Bad Sex
Only one from the mailbag today, because of the length and importance. From Jay, who points us to the New Atlantic's major study on sexuality. Bookmark this one, folks. You'll…
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Eliminate The P-Value (and Bayes Factor) Altogether & Replace It With This
Good news and bad news. Good news it that there is a growing number of people who are aware that p-values are sinking science and they want to do something,…
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Bad Numbers, Bad Statistics
I am only about two years behind on my emails. Every email folks send me is worthy of a full post, but obviously I am so far behind I'll never…
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Stats from Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal reviewing Paul Hollander's From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship said (a long but necessary quotation; the emphasis…
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Latest Leftest Lunacy: Science Can Say Which Speech Is Violent
Stream: The Latest Inanity: Science Can Measure Which Speech is Violent If academic psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett is right, we should be able to find the precise combination of words…